Hard to digest

Proactive/Reactive. In Greerton, on a winter's day, I've taken notice of vehicles for an hour and not seen a single cyclist. Motoring from Pyes Pa to Tauranga Central on a nasty wet day - no cyclists.

School Students use bicycles, some unfortunately receiving lifelong injuries that bus travel prevents. Cars are here until we have better options.

We could compromise, drive ‘bubble' cars to work, double existing vehicle numbers on existing roads. Big trucks, busses, driver training, courtesy!

Mayor Greg Brownless [Bay of Plenty Times, September 12] says council stepped into fund road planning projects when Government failed to honour its commitments. That put paid to ‘council does not vote on roading' as claimed in ‘Answers given' posted in Letters to The Weekend Sun, September 13th.

How about upfront honesty, cards on the table, maybe an informed Local Government Election? Councillors grouped in relevant areas. Councillors past infrastructure voting history or signed declared intention made public.

Proactive, not reactive, public participation might be the result. This could even put paid to the pointless and expensive, after-work-is-completed reviews, that even my pet rabbit finds hard to ‘munch on.'

Jim Trounson, Pyes Pa

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